Wednesday, 31. January 2007

The scariest story of the year


HOW can it be that the New York Times relegates the most terrifying story of this young year to a single column’s width on yesterday’s front page—without attaching so much as a photo to get our blood pumping? The casual reader of “Smugglers’ Plot Highlights Fear Over Uranium” above the article’s Tbilisi dateline can be forgiven for missing the fact that this story should concern every reader, every New Yorker, every citizen of a big city or the civilised world, much more than anything else in this week’s news.

economist.com

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